#how voting works

[itsmythang]

Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove: California

Sore loser doing sore loser things. CA allows up to a week after election day for mail-in ballots to arrive—and every voter receives a mail-in ballot so they can vote by mail like Donald Trump. There's no conspiracy. Stop complaining about things you're too dumb to understand.

[billyengland]

Let's Talk About The Electoral College & Why We Should NEVER Allow a Popular Vote.

As you know, The USA is made up of fifty separate states that work together under one big federal government. Each state, along with the hell-hole that is Washington D.C., has electors who cast votes for President based on what the people in their state choose.

Voting is super important because the candidate who gets the most votes in each state helps decide how those electors will vote. When we choose our state leaders or federal Congress members, we're acting as a democracy. But when we vote for President, it’s a bit different. We don’t directly elect the President; it's the states that do that through the Electoral College.

In most states, the candidate who wins the most votes gets all of that state's Electoral votes. The only exceptions are Maine and Nebraska, where they split some of the votes based on Congressional districts. Some people say votes from places like California or my home state of Virgnia count more than those from Wyoming or Nebraska, but that’s not true. Each state’s votes matter equally within that state.

The Electoral College was set up by our Founding Fathers as the best way to handle things. The U.S. is a Constitutional Federal Republic, meaning it’s a mix of states with a Representative Democracy—not a direct democracy. We even pledge allegiance “to the REPUBLIC,” --- and not "to the democracy"; which shows how we operate and what our nation is.

Before the Electoral College existed, there was a lot of tension between smaller and larger states about how to represent everyone fairly. Benjamin Franklin pointed out that smaller states were worried they’d lose their rights if everything was based on population, while larger states feared financial power would be taken from them. This lead to creating two parts of Congress and figuring out the Electoral College based on representation. Each state gets Electoral votes based on how many Representatives they have plus two for their Senators, and Washington D.C. gets three.

This system prevents a few big states from having all the power, meaning a single state like California can't just decide who becomes President. For instance, Hillary Clinton got almost three million more votes nationwide than Trump, but she got a huge chunk of those from California alone. If you take California out of the equation, Trump won more votes from the other states.

Our Founding Fathers knew that popular votes wouldn’t always align with who gets elected, which is why the Electoral College was created, and it’s doing its job well.

Think about the European Union—each country has its own leaders and votes for the President of the EU, but they don't let other countries decide who their leaders are. Every country gets one vote, no matter how big or small they are. Some people complain about dividing votes among winners and losers, but there’s always one winner for each position, whether it’s for governor or President. So, in the process set up by our Founding Fathers, each state gets as many Electoral votes as they have Representatives in the House, plus two for their Senators. D.C. gets three. If someone like Bernie wins four states, he gets those Electoral votes. If Hillary wins 18 plus D.C., she gets those votes, and if Trump wins 28 states, he takes those votes too. No one automatically gets to 270 Electoral votes right away.

If no one reaches that number, the election goes to the House of Representatives, where each state gets one vote. The candidate with the most votes in the House becomes the President. In short, popular votes only matter within each state to determine what electors from that state will do because it’s the states that elect the President—not the general population.

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Check out That's How Voting Works (feat. Red Team) by Jeff Williams on Amazon Music Whaaat? I started cackling in my quiet ass gallery at work. 😂😂😂

[matchgirl42]

I know.  I KNOW.

It sticks in the craw to “have to vote for Hillary.”

But I’m going to tell you something.

You don’t have to support Hillary.

You don’t have to sugercoat her record as a warmonger and capitalism cheerleader in the pockets of Wallstreet.

You don’t have to say nice things about her.

And you don’t have to think of this as voting for her.  Because you and I and others like us, we’re not voting for her.  Not really.

We’re voting against Donald Trump.

Voting for third-party candidates, in this case, is essentially voting for Donald Trump.  If you don’t want him in the office of the presidency of the United States, then you need to realize that voting third-party will help put him there.

So you know, I get it.  I don’t like Hillary, either.  But think of it this way: the vote in this case is either a “yes” or “no” for a Trump presidency.

If you don’t want a Trump presidency, then you need to vote no.  And voting “no” on a Trump presidency means voting for the democratic candidate.  That’s how this system works right now.  And yes, that system needs changing, but essentially voting “yes” for a Trump presidency is not the way to go about changing the system.

Let’s start calling this what it is, too.  We’re not “voting for Hillary.”  We’re not “with her.”

We’re against Trump.  And we’re voting “NO” to a Trump presidency.

[soft-oh-keys]

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